Rutuja Isha Amin

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Senior Engineering Manager at Cairn HQ · API platforms

Cairn HQ
Pune, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
IIIT Bangalore
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Overview

I've spent 12 years on API platforms - first at Axis Bank, now at Cairn HQ. Led the migration of 16 services to rate limiting. Most at home with REST and Redis. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

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Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
rate limitingRESTRedisPythonRocksDB
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Building out public API at Cairn HQ: backend engineers wanted in Pune

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
₹18-80 LPA
Team
Public API, 11 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with Redis Production experience with Python Ownership of something end to end
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp ₹37-71 LPA. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Pune, Indiarate limitingpythonrocksdb
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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Nov 2025 - Present
    Cairn HQ · 11 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 10 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 42 minutes to under 2.
  2. Senior Backend Engineer
    Apr 2022 - Nov 2025
    KPMG · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Shipped 10 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 38 a week to 2.
  3. Senior Backend Engineer
    May 2018 - Feb 2022
    Kotak Mahindra Bank · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 4.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Jul 2016 - May 2018
    Airtel · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Shipped 23 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
  5. Backend Engineer
    Jul 2014 - Apr 2016
    Axis Bank · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 18 a week to 1.

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Education

  1. IIIT Bangalore
    M.Tech, Mathematics
    2013 - 2015
  2. University of Delhi
    B.Com, Mathematics
    2009 - 2013

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